Our Mission

How We Do It

We have the expertise and execution capabilities necessary for success in the ETF space. Our in-house team covers everything from product issuance to portfolio management, marketing, wholesaling, legal and compliance, providing unrivaled quality control and direct access to all disciplines.

Select ETF Industry Achievements:

Co-founded and led MacroMarkets LLC an innovative ETF and financial products firm.

Managed over $1.7B in assets through the first “paired” ETF products.

Developed the S&P-Case/Shiller home price index for the creation of housing risk
management products.

Awarded 11 financial product patents.

Received William F. Sharpe Achievement award for most innovative benchmark index.

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ETF Managers Group, LLC and ETFMG Financial, LLC are subsidiaries of Exchange Traded Managers Group, LLC. ETFMG Financial, LLC is a broker-dealer registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and is regulated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority as a FINRA member firm.

Sam Masucci

Chief Executive Officer & Founder

Samuel Masucci

Mr. Masucci has more than 25 years experience in investment banking, structured product development, sales and trading. In the last 5 years, he founded ETF Managers Group (ETFMG) to revolutionize the exchange traded fund market place. Sam's leadership has already led to the successful launch of 14 funds and $2 Billion in assets. His unique approach to the ETF go-to-market process and post launch management is setting the bar in this quickly evolving industry. Prior to ETFMG he has held senior positions at Bear Stearns, UBS, SBC Warburg, and Merrill Lynch and has a proven track record of creating, building and managing businesses for the issuance, sales and trading of: ETFs, index products, commodity products, hedge funds, ABS, and OTC structured products in the U.S. and Europe. He has significant experience in asset management product sales to institutional investors including pension funds, consultants, insurance companies and hedge funds as well as to broker dealer networks and RIAs.

ETFMG's managed fund, HACK, received industry recognition as the most successful ETF launch for 2015 earning over $1billion dollars in its first 6 months.

Co-founded and led MacroMarkets LLC an innovative ETF and financial products firm.

Managed over $1.7B in assets through the first "paired" ETF products.

Awarded 11 financial product patents.

Received William F. Sharpe Achievement award for most innovative benchmark index.

Awarded 2008 Time Magazine best invention for U.S. housing ETF.

Barney Karol

President & Founder

Barney Karol

Bernard Karol is a co-founder of ETF Managers Group and is president of the firm. He is a member of the New York bar and an inactive member of the California bar. He was previously the principal of The Fiduciary Group, a consulting firm, where he originated transactions that added significant new AUM for investment management firm clients. He also served as a Managing Director at MacroMarkets LLC with Mr. Masucci. Before that he was a partner at the Wall St. law firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn where he focused on financial services, derivatives and exchange traded funds. He was a senior member of the legal team that developed and registered the initial I-Shares. He is the author of numerous articles on investment management topics and is a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School.

John Flanagan

Chief Financial Officer

John Flanagan

Mr. Flanagan serves as the Principal Financial Officer of ETF Managers Capital and ETF Commodity Trust I. Since June 2014, Mr. Flanagan serves as an Independent Trustee of Absolute Shares Trust, a multi-series exchange traded fund. Mr. Flanagan has been the President and sole owner of John A Flanagan CPA, LLC since December 2010. Mr. Flanagan was Chief Financial Officer of MacroMarkets LLC, an exchange traded fund issuer from January 2007 to December 2010.

Dave Weissman

Chief Compliance Officer

David Weissman

Mr. Weissman oversees and manages the implementation of all elements of operations and the regulatory compliance requirements and reports pursuant to SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and NYSE rules and regulations. Prior to joining ETFMG, Mr. Weissman served as Chief Administrative and Chief Compliance Officer of ARK Investment Management LLC , a Registered Investment Advisor and ETF issuer. Mr. Weissman served as Chief Compliance Officer of Factor Advisors, Factor Capital Management, LLC and FactorShares and was an independent consultant to issuers in the ETF market. Prior to that, Mr. Weissman served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer to FocusShares LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Scottrade LLC, an ETF issuer and Investment Adviser.

Timothy Collins

Senior Portfolio Manager

Timothy Collins

Mr. Collins has over 25 years of experience in financial services, having spent the last 15+ years establishing trading operations and investment firms in both the US and Europe.

Prior to joining ETF Managers Group, he was a founding partner of Fairfield Advisors, where he developed sophisticated trading strategies with an emphasis on ETFs and commodities.

Mr. Collins established market making operations for European based ETF products for both Goldman Sachs & Spear Leeds Kellogg in London. He was responsible for primary market making activity in a large number of indexed products, including exchange traded funds, equity baskets, futures, swaps and other derivative instruments.

Before that, Tim was head trader for Intermarket Management, Inc., where he was responsible for index arbitrage in the Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) Commodity Index and the US Dollar Index. In this role, he worked on behalf of several US pension funds and corporations.

Mr. Collins received a Masters of Business Administration from the Stern School of Business at New York University with a dual major in Finance and International Business. He also has a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Fairfield University.

Reshma Amin

Chief Compliance Officer

Reshma Amin

Ms. Amin was previously a Partner at Crow & Cushing, a Princeton-based securities law firm, counseling clients in the financial services and money management industry. Ms. Amin has broad experience in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, National Futures Association and FINRA compliance, including all types of registration and regulatory matters.

Ms. Amin has also worked at the NYSE and FINRA and was a law clerk to the Honorable Philip L. Paley, Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division and, prior to that, was an extern for the US Attorney's Office in Cleveland, Ohio. Ms. Amin is an active member of 100 Women in Hedge Funds and is also involved with the Oliver Scholars Program.

Ms. Amin received a B.S. from The George Washington University and a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law and is admitted to the New Jersey and New York state bars.

James Francis

Chief Investment Officer

James Francis

As Chief Investment Officer, James is responsible for Portfolio Management, Trading, Research and Capital Markets at ETF Managers Group. With more than 30 years' experience in investment management, James brings a wealth of experience in global markets to ETFMG's platform. Prior to joining ETFMG, James held Senior Portfolio Management roles at Deutsche Bank, Geode Capital Management, and SSgA, where he was a member of the team that in 1994 launched the first-ever ETF. James holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.